Top Crime Movies


The Top Crime Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Crime List". Lists are calculated daily.

221. Dheepan

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jacques Audiard
Actors: Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Marc Zinga
Plot: A former Tamil warrior in Sri Lanka finds himself having to make an exit after coming out on the wrong side of a civil war. Finding a woman and child, he picks them up along the way, hoping this new "family" will lead to a better chance at asylum. They find themselves in Paris, struggling to find a life and home but even after finally settling into some sense of normalcy, violence still finds them and the man finds the warrior still inside will have to come out to protect those he has come to love.

222. Marathon Man

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Schlesinger
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver
Plot: A series of events leads a regular man to become embroiled in the machinations of a Nazi war criminal and his plan to walk away with a fortune in stolen diamonds.

223. Bullitt

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Yates
Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland
Plot: A mafia informant is killed on Frank Bullitt's watch - seemingly with inside knowledge. Now he has to track down the killers and the leak.

224. Klute

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan, Rita Gam

225. Gomorrah ( Gomorra )

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Matteo Garrone
Actors: Salvatore Abruzzese, Simone Sacchettino, Salvatore Ruocco, Vincenzo Fabricino, Vincenzo Altamura, Italo Renda
Plot: Five individual stories present a contemporary look at the mafia in Italy.

226. Pusher

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Actors: Kim Bodnia, Zlatko Buric, Laura Drasbæk, Slavko Labovic, Mads Mikkelsen, Peter Andersson
Plot: A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.

227. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Isela Vega, Warren Oates, Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson, Donnie Fritts, Robert Webber
Plot: A wealthy Mexican rancher puts a $1 million bounty for the head of Alfredo Garcia. With every bounty hunter on the trail, a piano-player is questioned and, doing his own investigations, learns his girlfriend knows the whereabouts of Garcia's place of burial. Striking out together, with dreams of untold wealth - the two have no idea the misery they will encounter.

228. The Iceman

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ariel Vromen
Actors: Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Chris Evans, Ray Liotta, David Schwimmer, James Franco
Plot: Richard Kuklinski led a double life - on one hand he was a loving family man - on the other, a cold-blooded hitman - this is his story.

229. Shallow Grave

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danny Boyle
Actors: Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Ken Stott, Colin McCredie, Robert David MacDonald
Plot: A series of interviews lead to a new roommate for a group of British flatmates. But when the new tenant winds up dead, and surprisingly loaded with cash, they have to decide what to do with the body... and the money.

230. Green Street Hooligans

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lexi Alexander
Actors: Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani, Geoff Bell, Brendan Charleson, Kieran Bew
Plot: A Harvard journalist student takes the fall for his roommate and his expelled. He moves to London to stay with his older sister and finds himself in soccer gang.

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